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Browse material on the OutHistory website by time period.
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Justice Weekly and Homophile Publishing in Toronto, 1953–1972, by Donald W. McLeod
An examination of the Toronto tabloid Justice Weekly as a source of queer-positive articles, mostly reprinted from the U.S. homophile press, in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. Published originally by OutHistory in November 2025.
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Elver Barker and Mattachine Denver: A 2002 Interview, by Peter Boag
This exhibit features a 2002 oral history interview of Denver Mattachine activist Elver Barker by historian Peter Boag. It also includes a transcript of the Sixth Annual Convention of the Mattachine Society, which took place in Denver in 1959.…
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Margaret Chung
Margaret Chung Birthday Bio
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Gail Laughlin
Gail Laughlin Birthday Bio
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LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, edited by Megan E. Springate, 2016
This exhibit features LGBTQ America, a theme study that the National Park Foundation and National Park Service (NPS) published in 2016; the NPS deleted the report from its website in 2025. The exhibit also includes The Pride Guide, an associated…
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Matchmaking’s Lineage: A 2024 Interview with E.G. Crichton, by Tamara de Szegheo Lang
An interview with the author of Matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts (2023). Published originally on OutHistory in January 2025.
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Disabled Gay and Lesbian Activists in the Homophile Movement, 1930s-1980s, by Moira Armstrong
A collection of biographies of disabled gay and lesbian activists in the homophile movement. Published originally on OutHistory in October 2024.
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Queer Sources from Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community, 1870s-2020s, by Moira Armstrong
This exhibit follows up on the recent book Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2024), which covers themes, figures, and events from the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first…
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Tyrone Smith
Tyrone Smith Birthday Bio
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Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney Birthday Bio
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Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan Birthday Bio
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston Birthday Bio
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Birthday Bio
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Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis Birthday Bio
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Augustus Granville Dill
Augustus Granville Dill Birthday Bio
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Esther Lape
Esther Lape Birthday Bio
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Carl Wittman
Carl Wittman Birthday Bio
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Jan Gay: The Lesbian Sex Researcher That History Forgot, by Michael Waters
This essay was first published on March 2, 2022, by Harper’s Bazaar magazine, which retains the copyright. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author and publisher. This reprint includes citations by the author (not included in the…
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Del Martin
Del Martin Birthday Bio
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Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin Birthday Bio